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 Photoshop Tutorials

Video 1: Double Exposure Effect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRREbCo83b0

This tutorial seemed pretty quick and easy with only a few more confusing steps, but the end product looked really impressive. Basically, you select the main object you want to alter and then use tools such as refine edge and overlay and trace around the object with it. Then you alter the contrast and shift edge, choose to decontaminate colors under output and change background to a solid color. Then add a layer for curves and darken the skin in this case with curves. You then bring in a background of choice which you wish to show up as part of the object and then make a clipping mask. Finally, you use the brush to make sections of the face or object visible again. 

Video 2: Get Started Using Photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79iuMknMF2A

This video was pretty simple and basic, but seems like a great video to watch before having any photoshop experience. It starts with showing how to choose preset details for certain kinds of projects. It then goes. over the layout of where the most used tools and sections are. Some of the details it went over that I think will be most helpful are how to adjust different windows in order to make working and finding tools most efficient and how to use the adjustments tab for different types of editing, such as darkening or lightening and image or changing hue and saturation. These are only a few things the video goes over. I would recommend this video in order to get a grasp on the basics of photoshop before starting. 

Video 3: How to Creatively Blend Two Images in Photoshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErDuKDNhYsI

This tutorial seems pretty easy even for a beginner as long as you follow it closely. The final Image looked really cool and I would've guessed it took a lot longer than it did. There are a good amount of steps. You begin with having a main image open in a tab and then another with the background image. First you make your background longer and then file place embedded image of main image you want to blend in from the other tab as a new layer. In this case it is a swimmer. Select the model and apply a layer mask and then she appears over main background. Then you do a variety of steps including making a copy for a new layer, change blending options, and make water from image with model more visible to blend it in with the road further. You then edit it, such as with hue and saturation and use the filter blur. At this point it should be mostly blended in, but lighting and hues may need to be adjusted more.